(v. i.) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered; as, grayling's flesh will calver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore from the economic aspect it appears to be profitable to replace productive, but ill, older dairy cows by healthy first-calvers because the negative effect of the mastitis on the production of milk increases with every successive lactation.
(2) The effect of the last developmental phase of the warble fly (Hypoderma bovis de Greer) larvas was studied as exerted on some health indices of milk in 20 experimental (treated) and 18 control (untreated) first-calvers of the Pinzgau breed at two localities of an area affected by bovine hypodermosis in the period from May to June, 1975.
(3) Simon Calver, the chief executive, said: "We are continuing to make fundamental improvements to our business in the UK, which will allow us to compete effectively in a changing marketplace.
(4) 'I feel good because I'm helping people' THE MUM: Kate Calver, 50, secondary school teacher Just before giving birth to Sophie, I was approached by the research team who asked me to be in the study.
(5) Apart from a higher effect, especially in the compensation of hypomagnesiaemia and metabolic acidosis, the use of the new supplement in first-calver stocks allows to reduce the total financial costs of mineral feed supplements by 20%.
(6) In three groups of first-calvers with 15 animals each, with an identical basal diet, we followed for six months the effect of the DOB mixture additive without fat, the DOB mixture with 5% of rendering-plant fat obtained mechanically and DOB with 5% of rendering-plant fat after perchlorethylene extraction (0.90% perchlorethylene residuum).
(7) The Lovefilm chief executive, Simon Calver, said: "The deal is a winner for the members who love Lovefilm because of its value, choice, convenience and innovation in home entertainment "With Amazon's unequivocal support we can significantly enhance our members' experience across Europe."
(8) "However, it is an unfortunate reality that building union officials often hide behind employee conduct and the actions of the FWBC will bring home to workers the consequences of blindly following union demands," said Richard Calver, acting chief executive of Master Builders.
(9) The calves of the Red Spotted breed and their first-calver mothers were subject to the study of total proteinemia and of the changes in protein fractions before parturition and in a ten-day period of post-partal development.
(10) Twelve calves of the Red Spotted breed and its crossbreds born by first-calvers, kept in a large-capacity stable of a dairy farm, were subject to the study of the ontogenetic development of the values of the blood picture from birth up to the 10th day of age.
(11) Preferably 10 sera from each of the yearling, first calver, second calver and older age groups should be tested.
(12) Chief executive Simon Calver, who joined Mothercare from LoveFilm last April, admitted the mother and baby retailer was being "squeezed in the middle" as supermarkets beat it on price at the bottom end and luxury brands, such as The White Company, stole some high-end customers.
(13) In none of the followed health indices of milk were significant differences in the values obtained from experimental and control first-calvers proved statistically.
(14) We investigated the effect of hypodermosis on the quantitative and some qualitative indicators of milk from 20 experimental and 18 control first-calvers of the Pinzgau cattle breed.
(15) After calving, the haemorrhages tended to disappear rapidly from the claws of the heifers, but no such recovery was evident in the second calvers and mature cows.
(16) Calver said Lovefilm has seen "very, very strong" uptake in streaming from games consoles, which it introduced in March last year, but that physical rentals were also performing "confidently" and "continuing at pace".
(17) In 77% of the cows and first-calvers of the experimental group the quality of colostrum complied with the standard; in the case of the control animals this proportion was 83%.
(18) It was administered to about 7300 highly pregnant heifers and first-calvers at rates of 0.15 to 0.2 kg per head and day.
(19) "It's the customers who decide whether to go for digital or physical rentals – that's why we're developing a hybrid proposition," Calver told the Guardian.
(20) A field trial was performed in two half-sib first-calver groups of the Bohemiam Spotted breed.
Cow
Definition:
(n.) A chimney cap; a cowl
(n.) The mature female of bovine animals.
(n.) The female of certain large mammals, as whales, seals, etc.
(v. t.) To depress with fear; to daunt the spirits or courage of; to overawe.
(n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(2) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(3) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(4) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
(5) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(6) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
(7) The surface phenotypes of bovine intestinal leukocytes isolated from the intraepithelium (IEL), lamina propria (LPL) and Peyer's patches (PPL) of the small intestinal mucosa of normal adult cows were determined using monoclonal antibodies (mAb) specific to adult bovine peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL).
(8) To evaluate B cell percentage as a means of detecting subclinical progression of bovine leukemia virus infection, an index was developed based upon the distribution of B cell percentages in seronegative cows.
(9) This indicates a potential use for 1,25(OH)2D3 to prevent and treat hypocalcaemic cows with or without concurrent hypomagnesaemia.
(10) It was also established that the Y. enterocolitica strains isolated from raw cow milk did not refer to the European serotypes 0:3 and 0:9 that were pathogenic for humans.
(11) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
(12) Total white cell counts were reviewed in paediatric in-patients with viral gastroenteritis, bacterial gastroenteritis, delayed recovery following acute gastroenteritis, viral lower respiratory tract infections and cow's milk protein intolerance.
(13) In experiment II, RS cows had a higher pregnancy rate (87.6% vs 66.0%, P less than 0.05) and a shorter postpartum interval (83 vs 101 days, P less than 0.05) than did NS cows.
(14) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
(15) [3H]-oxytocin was specifically bound to the 105,000 X g particulate fractions from 5 lactating cows and 5 non-lactating cows.
(16) One hundred and forty six calving interval records were built up from 64 N'Dama cows maintained for 3.5 years under a high natural tsetse challenge in Zaire.
(17) Following parturition, NONLAC cows averaged 4.0 d to negative EB nadir and 14.3 d to first ovulation.
(18) Eight periparturient cows were on a high Ca diet prepartum.
(19) The effect on milk yield, milk leucocyte concentration, and milk prolactin of dominance rank and introduction of "strange" cows into a group was studied.
(20) Preserving alfalfa as silage and feeding in a TMR to cows in early lactation resulted in greater milk production via increased DMI or improved feed efficiency compared with preserving alfalfa as hay and feeding grain separately.